Trad Dad
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1 or 2 pencils is sending me. They're consumable. You use them up. Oliver Twist ass kid writing so lightly you can barely read it to save the graphite, to make his 1-2 pencils last through 12th grade.
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
1 or 2 pencils is sending me. They're consumable. You use them up. Oliver Twist ass kid writing so lightly you can barely read it to save the graphite, to make his 1-2 pencils last through 12th grade.
Oceans rise. Cities fall. D+12 REMAINS.
Low Turnout? Midterm Turnout? D+12 Still Arrives.
Georgia State House 121 Special -- UPDATE
- 🔵 ☑️ Eric Gisler (D) - 5,873 (50.9%)
- 🔴 Mack "Dutch" Guest IV (R) - 5,676 (49.1%)
We can project that, in an upset, Eric Gisler has flipped Georgia's 121st State House District.
- 🔵 ☑️ Eric Gisler (D) - 5,873 (50.9%)
- 🔴 Mack "Dutch" Guest IV (R) - 5,676 (49.1%)
We can project that, in an upset, Eric Gisler has flipped Georgia's 121st State House District.
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oceans rise. Cities fall. D+12 REMAINS.
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We have built endless machines to stimulate us at all times and evoke a neverending torrent of strong feelings, and nothing is so stimulating, so evocative, as cheap nostalgia paired with the assurance that you’re right to feel everything good has been taken from you, you’ve been wronged by history
this is why i prefer the term "the malaise." there is *demonstrably* a malaise. nobody likes The Current Thing™️. but *what* they're mad about? or more precisely, what *caused* them to be mad? that is a much harder question, and one it does not do to presuppose
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We have built endless machines to stimulate us at all times and evoke a neverending torrent of strong feelings, and nothing is so stimulating, so evocative, as cheap nostalgia paired with the assurance that you’re right to feel everything good has been taken from you, you’ve been wronged by history
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i wish they'd give me the damn shingles shot i'm way under 50 but i just super don't want to get shingles
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
i wish they'd give me the damn shingles shot i'm way under 50 but i just super don't want to get shingles
Among other things, it's weird for the DOJ to say they are "adovcating on behalf of their client" (singular). IDK maybe it's a DOJ thing intended to mean the public/gov't. I worked at an agency and we never really used the language "client" as it's an odd fit for a gov't lawyer.
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Among other things, it's weird for the DOJ to say they are "adovcating on behalf of their client" (singular). IDK maybe it's a DOJ thing intended to mean the public/gov't. I worked at an agency and we never really used the language "client" as it's an odd fit for a gov't lawyer.
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The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
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but I think WB-Netflix is as bad as any other lurch in this direction and I think if you have the resources — and even if you think you don't — you should find ways to get people together on a regular basis. movie screenings. poker nights. chess club. even a standing bar night.
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
but I think WB-Netflix is as bad as any other lurch in this direction and I think if you have the resources — and even if you think you don't — you should find ways to get people together on a regular basis. movie screenings. poker nights. chess club. even a standing bar night.
Unsurprisingly, tbone makes the point I was trying to make but more clearly and empathetically
i started a public movie club because i believe the only way anything good happens is if more people hang out with each other. Movie theaters are a much bigger version of that, even more than shows are — you are forced into parallel experience with a bunch of other people.
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Unsurprisingly, tbone makes the point I was trying to make but more clearly and empathetically
Here is a fun stat about "Blue Cities" to put things in context for the innumerate: there are more Trump voters in King County, Washington than in the entire state of Wyoming
Monica Crowley claims Trump is "talking to FIFA" about potentially moving the World Cup out of "blue cities," but no decisions have been made
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Here is a fun stat about "Blue Cities" to put things in context for the innumerate: there are more Trump voters in King County, Washington than in the entire state of Wyoming
This entire administration behaves like their job is that of a successful influencer celebrity in one of those group houses in LA. 1/ Be famous, 2/ Do Epic Posts, 3/ Enjoy the celebrity service treatment and treat the FBI and Secret Service like they're your personal staff.
Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, asked FBI agents on her security team at least two times, including once this spring, to drive her friend home, and agents objected to diverting from their assignment. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This entire administration behaves like their job is that of a successful influencer celebrity in one of those group houses in LA. 1/ Be famous, 2/ Do Epic Posts, 3/ Enjoy the celebrity service treatment and treat the FBI and Secret Service like they're your personal staff.
And this was a real schlep--almost 30 minutes by car. Bafflingly none of the Seattle area theaters are running it. Get thee to the Landmark Crest Cinema in Shoreline (which kicks ass for multiple reasons)!!
Saw Wake Up Dead Man in theaters (****), and it was a truly delightful experience which helped solidify a cranky and likely cancellable take of mine: you should have to go outside your house to do more things.
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
And this was a real schlep--almost 30 minutes by car. Bafflingly none of the Seattle area theaters are running it. Get thee to the Landmark Crest Cinema in Shoreline (which kicks ass for multiple reasons)!!
Saw Wake Up Dead Man in theaters (****), and it was a truly delightful experience which helped solidify a cranky and likely cancellable take of mine: you should have to go outside your house to do more things.
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Saw Wake Up Dead Man in theaters (****), and it was a truly delightful experience which helped solidify a cranky and likely cancellable take of mine: you should have to go outside your house to do more things.
Trump just pardoned someone that the DOJ convicted of bid rigging. In July. July 2025. The case was prosecuted by the Trump administration. You can just do crimes now. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Trump pardons Climate Pledge Arena developer
Tim Leiweke was pardoned by the president on Tuesday, months after a federal indictment on bid-rigging charges involving the University of Texas at Austin.
www.seattletimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Trump just pardoned someone that the DOJ convicted of bid rigging. In July. July 2025. The case was prosecuted by the Trump administration. You can just do crimes now. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Kavanaugh Stop
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Kavanaugh Stop
It's ambiguous because she didn't mention which President, but based on the contents it's clearly Stephen Miller this time.
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's ambiguous because she didn't mention which President, but based on the contents it's clearly Stephen Miller this time.
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pete hegseth tweeted one of the most fucking appalling things i've ever seen and it's just like
well
brah im so tired of these fucking assholes i'm so tired of these fucking war criminals i'm so fucking tired of having these dipshit children ruining the world
well
brah im so tired of these fucking assholes i'm so tired of these fucking war criminals i'm so fucking tired of having these dipshit children ruining the world
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
pete hegseth tweeted one of the most fucking appalling things i've ever seen and it's just like
well
brah im so tired of these fucking assholes i'm so tired of these fucking war criminals i'm so fucking tired of having these dipshit children ruining the world
well
brah im so tired of these fucking assholes i'm so tired of these fucking war criminals i'm so fucking tired of having these dipshit children ruining the world
Trump Always Chickens Out which is why it's deeply jokerfying that so few established Dems are willing to say anything about his substantive crimes. Trump admin actually recognizes that what they're doing is crimes and they don't want to be accused of doing crimes!
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Trump Always Chickens Out which is why it's deeply jokerfying that so few established Dems are willing to say anything about his substantive crimes. Trump admin actually recognizes that what they're doing is crimes and they don't want to be accused of doing crimes!
Strong floor. No ceiling. It's raining. The water rises. There is no door. You can't reach the bottom anymore. You're treading water. How long can you last?
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Strong floor. No ceiling. It's raining. The water rises. There is no door. You can't reach the bottom anymore. You're treading water. How long can you last?
It's extremely bad that an avatar of the Pestilence God is in charge of national health policy and I'm never gonna get over it
This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's extremely bad that an avatar of the Pestilence God is in charge of national health policy and I'm never gonna get over it
I am finally reading Call for the Dead and I truly love that the first things you ever learn about Smiley are he has a smokeshow wife who immediately cheats on him, and he looks like a bullfrog wearing human clothes that are too big for him.
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I am finally reading Call for the Dead and I truly love that the first things you ever learn about Smiley are he has a smokeshow wife who immediately cheats on him, and he looks like a bullfrog wearing human clothes that are too big for him.
You wanna win by one point or fuckin' thirty points, Charlie Brown?
I'm not the guy you kill, I'm the guy you buy! Are you so fucking blind that you don't even see what I am? I sold out Arthur for eighty grand and a three year contract. I'm the easiest part of your problem, and you're gonna kill me, Charlie Brown?
Nobody trusts anyone anymore, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
You wanna win by one point or fuckin' thirty points, Charlie Brown?
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
There is no economy good button, only an economy bad button, and Trump is pressing it
Still incredible how "the economy" was the top priority for voters in 2024 and so they voted in someone who in January 2025 started doing what he said he'd do and they immediately recognized that was terrible for the economy and their personal finances. 🤷♂️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is no economy good button, only an economy bad button, and Trump is pressing it
There is no "economy good" button that an administration can press but there are many "economy bad" buttons and both Trump admins love to press them. Bush did a few too.
Every Republican president of my lifetime has destroyed the global economy and it doesn’t matter at all electorally
the enduring wishcasting power of "republicans are good at the economy" is truly something to behold
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There is no "economy good" button that an administration can press but there are many "economy bad" buttons and both Trump admins love to press them. Bush did a few too.
Sorry but if I see one of these fuckers it's on sight
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Sorry but if I see one of these fuckers it's on sight